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Bort
Experienced Roboteer
Joined: 15 Jun 2004
Posts: 696
Location: Sydney, NSW
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Well Flexo is now officially retired. His final event was Ideas Festival, which was the proving ground that thwackbots are just too damn boring.
It was sad to dismantle him after winning the NSW season 08, but I really wanted to make use of the bullet steel armour. The most memorable fight Flexo had was also one of the first few, Flexo v Scissorhands.
So with the same intentions for indestructible armour, but this time with active weapon, I have created a new bot. This bot will be a flame thrower and in keeping with my naming is aptly called Beelzebot.
A very slapped together version made an appearance for the first event of NSW but had many issues. I'm pleased to say that I fixed the most fiddley bit, which was remote lighting of the pilot light. Things remaining are fixing up the welding, wiring, switching, motor mounts and top lid.
I'll post some pictures of it all and Flexo probably in a week after the event. _________________ Farnsworth - "I hate these nerds. Just because I'm stupider than them they think they're smarter than me."
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Sun May 31, 2009 11:44 pm |
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Bort
Experienced Roboteer
Joined: 15 Jun 2004
Posts: 696
Location: Sydney, NSW
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Holy crap! It's been a while.
In recent news I've made a lot of online purchases from Hobby King and dimension engineering. Well, by a lot I mean a lot for my standards.
Basically bought a whole bunch of Lipo batteries, charger, sabertooth, BEC etc. All these things will be put to use in insect class robots.
The sabertooth, a 3s lipo, BEC will be put to use in the fast traxx beetleweight. A 2s Lipo will be put into another off the shelf toy that was bought for $30 (total of $40 spent on that bot, the rest will be scrap metal). Nothing fancy with the bots at this stage, just easy thwack/wedge/ram style bots at this stage. As some of you may have seen the fast traxx is quite entertaining due to its speed, so will hopefully be interesting "boring" designs.
What bots I have at the next event will probably depend on if the orders arrive in time or not. _________________ Farnsworth - "I hate these nerds. Just because I'm stupider than them they think they're smarter than me."
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